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Western Canal, Hickey Hall Dam, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

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Western Canal, Hickey Hall Dam, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA

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Significance: The Hickey Hall Dam was built to ensure the water level in the upper level of the Western Canal was sufficiently high to provide power to the Suffolk and Tremont Mills prior to construction of the Northern Canal.
Survey number: HAER MA-5-A
Building/structure dates: 1845 Initial Construction

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1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Proprietors of the Locks & Canals on the Merrimack River
Suffolk Manufacturing Company
Tremont Manufacturing Company
Hawley, Monica E, transmitter
Malone, Patrick M, historian
Boucher, Jack, photographer
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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